Al-Haj A.M. (ed.) Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking. Image, Video and Audio Applications

IGI Global, 2010. — 566 p.In recent years, the tremendous advancement of digital technology has increased the ease with which digital multimedia files (image, video, and audio) are stored, transmitted, and reproduced. Consequently, content providers and owners are faced with the problem of protecting against copyright violation and other forms of abuse of their digital property. The nature of digital multimedia content makes traditional copyright methods unsuitable for establishing ownership. Therefore, digital watermarking was proposed, and strongly advocated, as a solution to prevent illegal and malicious copying and distribution of digital media. Many multimedia watermarking algorithms have been proposed in the last decade, however as the amount of digital multimedia production increases exponentially, the need for better and more advanced techniques for watermarking multimedia digital objects increases as well.
The primary objective of the book is to introduce readers to state-of-the-art research in multimedia watermarking in order to enable high quality research in the different disciplines of watermarking. Therefore, this book is considered useful as a reference for professionals and researchers working in areas such as image and document watermarking, audio and video watermarking, multimedia fingerprinting, information hiding, secured e-commerce, copyright protection, authentication, information management, and hardware implementation of real-time multimedia watermarking. The book consists of four sections, and eighteen chapters, covering a wide spectrum of multimedia watermarking topics. Section 1 compromises four chapters covering new advancements in digital image watermarking. Watermarking of other multimedia objects such as video, audio, text and 3D meshes are covered in Section 2 . Techniques for files containing different multimedia objects are covered in Section 3 . Optimization and hardware implementation of digital watermarking techniques are covered in section 4.Digital Image Watermarking
Two Spatial Watermarking Techniques for Digital Images
Data Secrecy: An FFT Approach
Color in Image Watermarking
Geometric Distortions-Invariant Digital Watermarking Using Scale-Invariant Feature Transform and Discrete Orthogonal Image Moments
Video, Audio, Text, and 3D Mesh Watermarking
From Watermarking to In-Band Enrichment: Theoretical and Applicative Trends
Audio Watermarking: State-of-the-Art
Watermarking Audio Signals for Copyright Protection Using ICA
Deterring Text Document Piracy with Text Watermarking
Blind Watermarking of Three-Dimensional Meshes: Review, Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
Multimedia Watermarking
A Unified Approach Towards Multimedia Watermarking
Data Hiding Schemes Based on Singular Value Decomposition
Feature Based Watermarking
Techniques for Multiple Watermarking
Copyright Protection in the Distribution of Multimedia Digital Objects in Internet
Optimization and Hardware Implementation of Watermarking Algorithms
Optimization in Digital Watermarking Techniques
Application of Error Control Coding for Multimedia Watermarking Technologies
Hardware Implementations of Image/Video Watermarking Algorithms
Spread Spectrum Watermarking: Implementation in FPGA